No one would dare accuse Pope Francis of being shy and reserved. Once again, the Twitterverse exploded this week with another easily prevented, and unfortunate statement. Pope Francis, it seems, has endorsed ‘the bird.’ And while the identification of the…
When I was in Seminary, I remember the other guys laughing once in a while about those Optional Memorials on the Liturgical Calendar which no one, until then, had ever heard about. Quite a few Saints get left in the…
Recently I received in my inbox an email with Bishop Robert Barron’s article Inclusivity and Love, which, especially after Cardinal McElroy’s insipid and vacuous rambling in America Magazine (which I do not have the stomach to link), is remarkable in…
Papal Funerals, for whatever reason, loom large in my memory of all things Catholic. I distinctly the death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, the novemdiales, the grief in the Churches, in Poland, in all the world. From the…
The Church this time of year is filled with holy and earnest expectation. We hear, year after year, the sighs of the Bride, the Church, for the presence of the Bridegroom. The calls become louder and more extravagant as we…
The recent and impressive advance of Ukranian forces through Russian lines, retaking a significant piece of their territory, has lately reawakened my Muses. The whole Russo-Ukranian War to me is tragic but also fascinating from a human management perspective. Many…
One of the surprising achievements of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI was his masterful ability to address contemporary concerns with perennial wisdom, especially as found in Scripture and Tradition. Although he was not the first to address the issue,…
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Saul Alinky, Rules for Radicals One of the torments of living in a culture that denies the concept of personal sin is having to grapple with the…
One of the occupational hazards of writing is that you can be reasonably certain that someone, somewhere, at some time has either had the thought you have had, or has come eerily close. Being a bit of a finance and…
So this has been something which I have wanted to do for a couple years, but I haven’t done till recently, because the summer allows for a certain amount of relaxation for me to indulge in more scholarly and human…